http://www.ipygaps.org Gas, Arctic Peoples, & Security Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:18:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en     http://www.ipygaps.org/2010/07/26/some-pictures-from-oslo/ This research initiative, entitled Negotiating Change: Community-Based Mental Health and Addiction Practice in the Northwest Territories of Canada set out to explore how community mental health and addictions practitioners in the Northwest Territories (NWT) experience and respond to rapid socio-economic change in their professional practice. Qualitative in nature, the ... http://www.ipygaps.org/2010/07/12/alanas-story/ Our fourth newsletter has now been released. It features: Negotiating Change: Community-Based Mental Health and Addiction Practice in NWT Conferences & Presentations: Learn about where and when the IPY GAPS team has been presenting! Sub-project Updates: The latest developments in GAPS research projects Ecojustice & Adaptation: An emerging network of activists, First Nations, ... http://www.ipygaps.org/2010/06/21/gaps-newsletter-4/ Our third newsletter has now been released. It features: Evolution of GAPS: Community consultations change the course of the project Team Workshop: What exactly is Human Security? Sub-project Updates: Find out what the GAPS researchers have been doing in NWT Interdisciplinary Research: Using human security to manage invasive nonindigenous plants Conferences: Researchers have attended many ... http://www.ipygaps.org/2009/10/27/gaps-newsletter-3/ This past summer, Gunhild Hoogensen gave a keynote presentation to the 14th International Congress on Circumpolar Health in Yellowknife, NT. Affiliated student researchers Julia Christensen and Alana Kronstal also presented their GAPS research at the congress while GAPS and IRIS web coordinator Rajiv Rawat served on the organizing committee and ... http://www.ipygaps.org/2009/08/29/yellowknife-conference-rendezvous/ Strengthening the Ecojustice Movement: How Will Disenfranchised Peoples Adapt to Climate Change? Two-Day Conference April 16-17, 2009 April 16th - Founders Assembly Hall April 17th - The Underground Community activists and activist scientists from Brazil, India, South Africa, and Arctic Canada  will share stories of local vulnerabilities to climate change, and discuss strategies for addressing inequities ... http://www.ipygaps.org/2009/03/13/conference-strengthening-the-ecojustice-movement/ Check out our second newsletter covering April 2007 until April 2008. http://www.ipygaps.org/2008/09/30/newsletter-no-2-now-available/ 2008 has been a very busy year so far. I have spent the last five months in Inuvik and Yellowknife, conducting fieldwork for my doctoral research which forms part of the GAPS project. My research looks at the relationship between housing insecurity and homelessness in the Northwest Territories and how ... http://www.ipygaps.org/2008/07/28/update-from-julia/ While we were in Fort Simpson, we had the opportunity to recruit several local youth to be partners with our research team. Brittany was one of them, and the following is a podcast of our discussion. [podcast]http://www.ipygaps.org/wp-content/podcasts/Brittany.mp3[/podcast] http://www.ipygaps.org/2008/07/11/podcast-with-brittany-hardisty-isaiah/ [gallery] http://www.ipygaps.org/2008/07/03/snapshots-from-fort-simpson/